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SNP Mutation‐Related Genes in Colon Cancer for Monitoring and Prognosis of Patients: a Study Based on the TCGA Database SNP Mutation‐related Genes in Colon Cancer for Monitoring and Prognosis of Patients: A Study Based on the TCGA Database Xin Liao Xiangya Hospital Central South University jian li ( lijian869@163.com ) Xiangya Hospital Central South University Yuxiang Chen Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine Haibo Ding Xiangya Hospital Central South University Chen Liu Xiangya Hospital Central South University Yang Liao Xiangya Hospital Central South University Huajun Liu Xiangya Hospital Central South University Research article Keywords: biomarkers, bioinformatics, the polymorphisms of msingle nucleotide, protein-coding gene Posted Date: August 26th, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-53237/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Page 1/20 Abstract Background: Cancer is still the leading cause of death in humans, and the fourth leading cause of death is colorectal cancer. Tumor bioinformatics has been developing in recent years, the prognosis and quality of life of patients can be improved by using relevant tools to understand the molecular pathogenesis of colorectal cancer and related prognostic markers. Methods: In this study, Bioinformatics analysis of the snp-related data of colon cancer patients from the TCGA database, it was found that the expression levels of 4 mutated genes (CTTNBP2,DAPK1, DMXL1,SPTBN2) were signicantly different from those of wild type and their prognosis. In order to explore how the core genes affect the prognosis of patients, the gene expression of these core genes was analyzed. Results: It was found that the core genes are related to a variety of cancer-related pathway genes, including pi3k-akt pathway and TSC/mTOR pathway. Drug sensitivity analysis showed that SPTBN2 could be inhibited by a variety of drugs, including austocystin D, afatinib, and belinostat. Tumor immunity is closely related to tumor therapy. Through the analysis of immune inltration of core genes, it was found that DAPK1 and DMXL2 were associated with a variety of immune cell inltration. Conclusion: Therefore, the detection of genetic mutations and related expressions may be signicant in predicting the prognosis of patients with colon cancer. Through the study of high-throughput information excavating, it was discovered that the molecular pathogenesis and prognosis of patients with colon cancer were helpful to the bioinformatics theory. Background Nowadays, the number of people dying from cancer continues to increase worldwide. For example, about 17.2 million people worldwide suffered from cancer in 2016, with about 890,000 deaths reported in Global burden of Disease study (1). Colorectal cancer is the third most familiar cancer in the world, and it's a cause for concern and the fourth leading cause of cancer deaths (2). According to previous studies, we can know that this serious disease involves many changes in genomics, genetics, and epigenetics. The molecular mechanism of level development process can help us reveal the occurrence of colon cancer individual accurate treatment. As we know, single nucleotide aberrance causes single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), also known as DNA array polymorphisms. Moreover, in the mankind genome, it is the most familiar type of mutation (3). It is a remarkable fact that the SNP located in different location has different functions. But the happening of the disease has a close connection with rRNA and miR- rRNA which locate in protein-coding and non-coding genes initiator. And it can alter the expression of genes. For example–125G/A rSNP of BAX gene, which encodes pro-apoptotic protein BAX (a tumor- suppressor gene): Compared with the G allele, the A allele leads to decreased mRNA-protein level expression, there is also an increased risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (4). srSNP in pre-mRNA and mature mRNA can change the stability, length, and transcription of mRNA/miRNA. The mutated Page 2/20 individuals of srSNPs located in the 5’ UTR of protein-coding genes were associated with platinum drug resistance (5). Single nucleotide polymorphisms can alter gene express by impacting binding, cleav-age, methylating, and the genetic differentiation between individuals are due to the degradation of mRNA of gene transcription factors (6). Hence, SNPs are a resting carcinogenic marker. Information biology analyzes based on the high-throughput sequences can help us to explore biological markers of early diagnosis, pathogenesis and new therapeutic targets of tumors. If tumor-related SNPS can be detected and corrected, such precision therapy may lead to further progress in our research on tumors. TCGA database (https://portal.gdc.cancer.gov/) as the biggest cancer gene information database, includes gene express data, mRNA expression data and copy number changes, DNA methylation, SNPS and other data (7). It is of great help in a overall analysis of the express of these components in different cancer forms (8). The goal is to help research into individualized, precise treatments for colon cancer. Methods data treating and analysis. The raw SNP data in TCGA is not available. We have obtained the processed SNP data of COAD and the original mRNA expression data. A total of 514 specimens were collected, including 41 normal specimens and 473 cancer specimens. From the SNP data of the COAD samples, we obtained the mutated gene. The downloaded SNP data was consolidated and analyzed using the maftool and genvir packages. The data afforded by TCGA is outward and open, so approval from a indigenous ethics council is not required. functional richness and pathway analysis of mutated genes. We used the R package "ClusterProler" to annotate the function of the mutated (9). Both the gene ontology (GO) and the Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) can assess the relevant function of categories. GO and KEGG enrichment pathways were signicant when p and q values were less than 0.05. mutation and expression. We set two conditions to screen out meaningful genes. The expression difference between the mutant group and the wild group was statistically signicant, and the mutant gene was associated with the prognosis of patients. To analyze CTTNBP2 / DAPK1 / DMXL2 / SPTBN2 gene expression in total, the correlation coecient of lter conditions was 0.3, p value was 0.001. After screening the genes with the most signicant expression of CTTNBP2 / DAPK1 / DMXL2 / SPTBN2, CTTNBP2 / DAPK1 / DMXL2 / SPTBN2 correlation analysis circle was drawn with the corrplot"and circlize" packages. The aim was to identify the genes similar to the core gene expression pattern, identify the most likely regulatory genes, and explore the potential mechanism of these core genes affecting prognosis. drug sensitivity analysis. GSCALite is a cancer gene set analysis platform (10) It can integrate the cancer genomics data of 33 cancer types from TCGA, the drug response data from GDSC and CTRP, and the normal tissue data from GTEx, and it can also conduct the gene set analysis in the data analysis process. In this study, the sensitivity of CTRP to key hub genes was analyzed by GSCALite. Page 3/20 the relationship between pivotal genes and immune cells. The TIMER database (https://cistrome.shinyapps.io/timer/) is the use of RNA - Seq expression spectrum data detection of immune cells in tumor tissue inltration (11). In this study, TIMER database was used to investigate the relationship between hub gene and immune cell content, and to compare the inltration levels between tumors with different somatic cell copy number changes of hub gene (12). gene-set difference analysis. Gene set variation analysis (GSVA) is a nonparametric and unsupervised method to evaluate the enrichment of transcriptome gene sets. GSVA determines the biological function of the sample by comprehensively scoring the gene set of interest and transforming the gene level change into the pathway level change (13). In this study, the gene sets will be downloaded from the Molecular signatures database (v7.0) and the GSVA algorithm will be used to comprehensively score each gene set to evaluate the potential changes in biological function of different samples. Results data processing and analysis. The SNP of COAD samples was extracted from the second generation sequencing data using the VarScan method in the TCGA database. The study identied more than 850 mutated genes in more than 30 samples, of which more than 100 were mutated in the top 10. (Figure 1) The total sample included 41 normal samples and 473 cancerous tissue samples. Further analysis of these mutated genes will provide a better understanding of their biological functions. functional enrichment and pathway analysis of mutant genes. In order to further understand the function of mutated genes in COAD, we used R package "ClusterProler" to conduct functional enrichment analysis and pathway analysis of 850 mutated genes in more than 30 samples. Those mutated genes associated with COAD are enriched in a variety of pathways affecting biological processes (BPs) and cellular components (CCs) (Figure 2). SNP mutated genes are enriched in multiple tumor signaling pathways, including PI3K−Akt signaling pathway, focal adhesion, and calcium signaling pathway (gure 3). Functional analysis showed that in BPs, SNPs mutated gene was mainly concentrated in synaptic tissue and cell adhesion. In the CC group, SNPs are enriched in extracellular matrix and collagen−containing extracellular matrix (Figure 2). mutation and expression. The screened SNPs mutated genes (CTTNBP2, DMXL2, DAPK1 and SPTBN2) were signicantly correlated with patient prognosis (Figure 4). The patients with low expression of CCTNBP2 have worse prognosis than those with high expression. The patients with high expression of DAPK1DMXL2SPTBN2 have worse prognosis than those with low expression. In terms of gene expression, DMXL2, DAPK1 and SPTBN2 in the mutant group are higher than those in the wild group. However, the expression level of CTTNBP2 mutant sample group is signicantly lower than that of the wild group (Figure 5). Using RNA-seq data, we selected the top ten genes that expressed the most signicantly with the hub-genes.
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